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Book Lovers’ Recommendations

Orchestrated by Louis Muñoz, one of our Reference Librarians, the Book Lovers’ Circle is a great way to find out about new titles, hear others’ recommendations and reviews, and spend a great hour together. Below you can find some recommended titles.

Book Lovers’ Circle: What We’re Reading!

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle #4), Agatha Christie
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Totenberg *
Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
Iron Lake (Cork O’Connor #1), William Kent Krueger
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Jack Zipes
The Sanatorium, Sarah Pearse
The New Life, Tom Crewe
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Girl Behind the Wall, Mandy Robotham
The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb *
Art in the Blood (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure #1), Bonnie MacBird
The Unsinkable Greta James, Jennifer E. Smith
Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor #19), William Kent Krueger
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff
Ben, In the World, Doris Lessing
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
We are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson *
The Winners, Fredrik Backman
The Half Moon, Mary Beth Keane
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
The Last Time I Lied, Riley Sager
Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
Up with the Sun, Thomas Mallon
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Mitford Affair, Marie Benedict
Heaven’s Keep (Cork O’Connor #9), William Kent Krueger
The Minus-One Club, Kekla Magoon
Love, Toni Morrison
Fire Keeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
Run Me To Earth, Paul Yoon
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Tara Schuster
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
Jackie and Me, Louis Bayard
Vaccines Change the World, Gillian King-Cargile; illustrations by Sandie Sonke
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Levee, William Kent Krueger
Yellowface, R. F. Kuang
Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz
Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout *
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir, Ashley C. Ford
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Lisa Unger
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath, Bill Browder
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3), Jane Harper
City of God, E. L. Doctorow
Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales #12), Dorothea Benton Frank
The Heavens May Fall (Detective Max Rupert #3), Allen Eskens
The Huntress, Kate Quinn
All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews
They’re Going to Love You, Meg Howrey
The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myers
Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Time Pieces, John Banville
We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker *
Her Hidden Genius, Marie Benedict
Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, Carolyn Huynh
The Woman and the Ape, Peter Høeg
How To Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann
Straight Man, Richard Russo
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1), Naomi Novik
Horse, Geraldine Brooks *
That Night, Chevy Stevens
Death Comes As the End, Agatha Christie
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Years, Annie Ernaux
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
My Government Means to Kill Me, Rasheed Newson
Better Late Than Never (Library Lover's Mystery #7), Jenn McKinlay
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Daniel Silva
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman
The Color Purple, Alice Walker *
Fury, Salman Rushdie
Have You Seen Luis Velez?, Catherine Ryan Hyde
Trust, Hernan Diaz *

 

Book Lovers’ Circle: Our Favorite Books of 2022

These titles were the ones we most enjoyed in 2022, although they were not all published in 2022.

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
Verity, Colleen Hoover
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Trust, Hernan Diaz
The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
Call Your Daughter Home, Deb Spera
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
The Girls in the Stilt House, Kelly Mustian
House of Sticks, Ly Tran
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Finding Me, Viola Davis
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Eric Cervini
Will, Will Smith
This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger.
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Honor, Thrity Umrigar
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, Shaun David Hutchinson (Illustrations: Christine Larsen)
Either/Or, Elif Batuman
The Last House on the Street, Diane Chamberlain
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
All That’s Left in the World, Erik J. Brown
The Guncle, Steven Rowley
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xóchitl González
This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World, Giles Milton
The End of Temperance Dare, Wendy Webb
Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 – The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne
The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Caves, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: Kalen Chock)
Oh William! (Amgash #3), Elizabeth Strout
The Children on the Hill, Jennifer McMahon
When the Sky Glows, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: David Litchfield )
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles.
The Trees, Percival Everett
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
A Rover's Story, Jasmine Warga
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
All the Young Men, Ruth Coker Burks
 

Archive: Book Lovers Recommendations
You can browse our past Book Lovers Recommendations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club and annotated by the wonderful and now retired Sue Lipstein.